South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

NEW YORK, July 5 -- African rock art consisting of paintings, scrapings, and engravings on stone was the least known of Africa's cultural treasures until the publication of the first comprehensive ...

Many people associate rock art with Lascaux and other sites in Europe. But Africa has a rich tradition of rock art depicting 30,000 years of life on the continent that gave birth to the human race.

South African Rock Paintings Depict Unicorns, ... The study author found that in the rock paintings in The Free State shows ...

The rock art depicts an animal that sports two tusks. The two enlarged teeth point downwards, which is unlike any tusk-bearing animal that lives today in Africa.

Rock art expert David Coulson has spent the past 20 years surveying, recording and preserving ancient artworks across Africa. He says "rock art all over the world is fragile, but certainly it ...

Africa's oldest scientifically dated k paintings, thus far, are to be found in southern Namibia and date to 28,000BC – comparable with the earliest rock paintings in Europe.

However, the image does not simply depict an African rail, and this hints at a spiritual dimension to the purpose of the painting. Often San rock art images take the form of therianthropes, which ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Rock art made by the San in Sub-Saharan Africa stretches back thousands of years. But whether through time or human defacement, some historic art is under threat.